Mac Gaming News - Freeverse Puts X2: The Threat on Store Shelves

by , 1:05 PM EDT, June 30th, 2005

Freeverse Software on Thursday announced that X2: The Threat, the latest game it is distributing in the United States on behalf of British publisher Virtual Programming Ltd., is now available on store shelves. The game was originally developed by Egosoft Software, which is currently working on X3: Reunion, a title that will continue the story and push the 3D technology to new heights.

X2: The Threat puts players in the role of an ex-con whose sentence is commuted by higher-ups at TerraCorp, who want to put his piloting skills to good use. Players don't know the company's ultimate goal, but they're put to work transporting supplies between sectors of the galaxy. With the money they earn from those jobs, they can upgrade their ship or even purchase a better one, which is important given the presence of pirates who will try to steal their cargo.

Players eventually learn about the presence of a malevolent race of creatures called the Khaak and discover why they were pulled from a sentence of hard labor on a desolate prison planet. The subsequent web of intrigue assumes galactic proportions. Along the way, players get the opportunity to pilot more than 70 different types of ships, from single-seat fighters to massive destroyers, and interact with several alien species, all with their own agendas.

Take to the stars in X2: The Threat

X2: The Threat is US$39.95. System requirements call for a 1.25GHz G4 processor, 256MB RAM, 2GB free hard drive space and an ATI Radeon 7000 or nVidia GeForce 3 video card (Radeon 9600 or nVidia GeForce 4Ti recommended).